Alex Haley
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley. It is the poignant story of three generations of an African-American family who start out as destitute sharecroppers in Tennessee. Mama Flora is the heart and strength of the family, shepherding her children through hard times after the murder of her husband by white land...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
670 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For the millions who loved Roots--Alex Haley continues the multigenerational saga of his father's family through his grandmother, Queen. The proud daughter of a slave and a white slave owner, her story is an unforgettable saga of love and war, of slavery and freedom, played out against the canvas of America's history.
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (690 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s and '70s, when Alex himself begins his research into the discovery of his roots.
9) Roots
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
30th anniversary ed. ; Standard full screen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunta Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
10) Roots
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
13) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 244 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roots: the gift (an expansion of the Roots saga with a Christmas theme three years after Kunta Kinte's first unsuccessful attempt to escape slavery) has Kunta Kinte and Fiddler desperately leading runaways through a network of safe havens to a getaway boat. As the boat fills there's room for one more passenger. A choice must be made; a Mandinka warrior can never abandon his friend.
The legacy of Roots, part one. Crossing over: how Roots captivated...
15) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born Malcolm Little, his minister father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. After getting out of jail, he preaches the teachings, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. There he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim. He changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and stops his anti-white teachings, having...
16) Roots
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.